Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-16
Grand Celebration Of it's
First Centennial.
A MAGNIFICENT PROCESSION
The Quaker City, Invaded by
Thousands of VisitOrs-Im-
posing Scenes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the Herald.

lifted from the hearts of many who
have been for months looking forward
to the day when the greatest epoch of
the history of the last century should
be celebrated.
AN EARLY START.
Philadelphia and her hundreds OF
thousands of guests appeared on the
streets early, and all were bent toward
the single object of making the cele-
bration fitting one. All day yester-
day and last night visitors, including
distinguished guests, military and
firemen. arrived by every possible
conveyance, and the dozen railroad
depots were taxed to their utmost to
accommodate the throng which had
hocked to the "Cradle of. Liberty" /"
All the hotels were filed to overflow
ing by yesterday.
AN ENORMOUS INFLUX.
1t is safe to say that there are at
least 200, 900 visitors from distance in
addition to the thousands from ad-
jacent counties in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, and
hardly State or Territory remains
unrepresented in the three days fes-
tivals.
LAvISHLY DECORATED.
The streets to-day presented an ap-
pearance lovely in the extreme. In
all directions as far as the eye could
see, it was one mass of bunting and
decoration. Many of the newspaper
offices and public buildings made Law
ish display of decorations, having
worked early and late to complete
the work in time. Every arrangement
had been made by those in charge,
and the day was one most eventually
interesting in the history OF the civil
lied world.
THE PROCESSION STARTS.
A monster civic and industrial pa
geant started from Broad and Dauphin
streets soon after 10 O'Clock and
marched to Broad and Moore streets, a
distance of nearly five miles, and then
eountermarched to the starting point,
passing through one continuous line
of observation stands gayly decorated
with the flags of all nations.
MAGNIFICENT DISPLAYS.
The procession was intended to illus
trate the advancement of the indus
trial arts and sciences during the past
century, and, it is believed, fairly
eclipsed anything of the kind ever
known. There were in line 800 floats,
each bearing a representation of some
particular branch OF industry, II 300
horses, and $50 bands OF music,
and the honor of leading the First Di-
vision was given to the patriotic Order
of Sons OF America, who presented a
beautiful display, headed by a richly
decorated wagon, bearing banners
with mottos emblematic of the order.
VARIED EXHIBITIONS.
The majority of the remaining
floats represented the various indus
tries, among them was display show
ing the progress in the modes OF travel
ing from the Revolutionary era to the
present time by land and water. The
United States mint had an interesting
exhibit. The Government naval dis
play included a model of the first
steamer which crossed the Atlantic, a
model of the United States man-of-
war Hartford, models OF new cruisers,
many kinds OF naval guns and a dis
play OF life-saving apparatus.
A GRAND SCENE.
The scene at the grand reviewing
stand, situated at the Union League
Club House, on Broad street, was a
grand one. There were sixteen tele-
graph stations ON the route of the pa
rade, for the purpose of communicate
ing from one end of the line to the
other, When it was announced that
the line had started, Governor Beaver
rode by in carriage and was greeted
with hearty round Of applause.
POPULAR MANIFESTATIONS,
As the different Governors passed
up or down Broad street and were
recognized, they received round after
round of cheers. The central portion
Of the stand was reserved for the Gov
ernors of States with their staffs. On
tll0 Stlllu NClC ulSo CCllatoIb siIlo
Representative of Congress, Commits
sioners of the various States and Ter
ritories, thirty-three in all, the Diplo-
matte Corps, foreign consuls and
especially invited guests of the Com
mission.
ALMOST INCONCEIvABLE.
To give an idea of the enormous
proportions OF the industrial pageant
it may be stated that at 20 minutes
past 2 only of the % divisions had
passed by the reviewing stand, and by
the time the seventh division had
passed southwark the head of the
column had arrived ON their return
march, having travelled % squares
south OF Market street.
UNPLEASANT INCIDENTS.
The march was made without casu-
alties farther than that an unknown
man dropped dead near Chestnut
street, presumably from heart disease,
and little girl was somewhat injured
in the crowd.
AN ARRAY OF TALENT.
Among the Governors occupying
seats on the reviewing stand were
Larrabee of Iowa, Beaver of Pennsyl-
vania, Hughes of Arkansas, Bucknell
of Kentucky, Thayer of Nebraska,
Pennoyer of Oregon, Wilson of West
Virginia, Foraker of Ohio, and Fitz-
hugh Lee of Virginia.
THE NAVY ASSISTED.
At sunrise this morning the United
States war vessels anchored in the
Delaware river began their part of the
celebration. A salute of thirteen
guns was fired from each one of them,
All of these vessels are handsomely
decorated with bunting and flags, and